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PAGE 18-PLAINDEALER-WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10. 1979 t ? • TPl AIND! .M.FR -A Editorial Opinion Taming The Telephone Of all this century's scientific blessings, perhaps the telephone is the best loved and appreciated. One can dial for help in an emergency, hear a loved one's voice far away, conduct business transactions almost instantaneously, etc. But the telephone, if not properly controlled, can also distract and dominate life. Practically anyone can interrupt home life--if there is no maid or answering service-with a call. At night one's sleep can be interrupted. The greatest abuse of all, perhaps, is by sales people interrupting conversations with customers at hand to answer a phone. Why should one who came to a place of business be interrupted and forced to wait for someone sitting at home using the telephone? The answer for sogie is a switch to turn the phone off at night or an answering service, or having a number unlisted, or having a servant who does all the answering. But for those who can't utilize these solutions, the wonderful convenience of a telephone can, in part, be turned into a source of near-constant interruption, by salespeople, charity solicitors, the curious and super conversationalists. A cut-off switch may be the simplest solution. Dangers Of Diets Readers should be aware of dangers and unknowns in various forms of dieting--so popular in recent years among females. One current diet fad, liquid protein, is now suspect as a danger to some women, according to the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta. A survey recently reported by the center and the Food and Drug administration showed a death rate among 37,000 white women on liquid protein diets considerably higher than average. The cause: heart complications. Diets are desirable, of course, for millions of americans. But the best diet is quite simple and effective for most people-eating less food. The old basir rule of less sugar, fat and starch, and more meat, vegetables and fruit instead, will produce a weight loss in the vast majority of people. Extreme or fad diets, and there are new ones almost every year, should be carefully and cautiously approached. % Let Deer Shoot First The ARENA M 35 Perspective § Publish Consumer Guide: * Governor James R. Thomp­ son has announced the publication of a State of Illinois Information Directory designed to serve as a con­ sumer guide to state govern­ ment services. "For the first time, Illinois citizens will have an easy to use guide to state government services. The directory iden­ tifies those state agencies or departments which can provide information, and help for today's concerned consumers." Thompson said. The free, pocket-sized directory, which is available in both English and Spanish, briefly describes what each of 58 state agencies and depart­ ments does and indicates whether consumer contact can be made by phone, letter or in person. The booklet was published by the Governor's Office of Inter- Agency Cooperation which includes a staff of caseworkers whose task is to answer questions, assist in resolving complaints and guide citizens Predicting the events of the New Year is pretty chancy stuff, but Jimmy Carter is making it a lot easier than it used to be. * With his penchant for con­ centrating on the "p.r." impact of his actions. Mr. Carter usually manages to raise ex­ pectations higher than they ought to go. The return to reality later on is, therefore, all the more deflating. Take Camp David last September. The way he and his minions talked about it you would have thought he had invented the concept of peace in the Middle East. In fact. Camp David was a sint (though promising) step and should have been described that way. But now. with mat­ ers stalled, disillusionment and cynicism - even boredom - are noticeable everywhere, to appropriate state govern- The "China card." I predict, ment agencies. The agency also^^ goittfl to cause even more disillusionment because 1) it maintains a Spanish Hotline. More than 35,000 copies of the Directory will be distributed through state agencies, schools, libraries and con­ sumer and community groups. In addition, copies are available by sending a self- addressed. stamped envelope to the Office of Inter-Agency Cooperation, Room 2010, 160 N. La Salle, Chicago, or by calling 312-793-2754 or the Spanish Hotline, 793-2190. Junk Food Controversary / (Gw»st editorial by Michael F. Wendland, Detroit News) WqAvere up North the other weekend, in the woods of Ogemaw _ ty. It was one of those glorious early autumn weekends. The sugar maples were just starting to turn, the sky was blue, the air crisp. Then we saw it--a deer blind. Archery season is under way now. In a-few weeks, rifle season opens. As many as a million Michigan people take part in the annual hunt. I used to be one of them. I've killed deer, duck, rabbit, pheasant and all sorts of other animals, but I quit when I had trouble explaining to my 11-year-old daughter how hunting was a sport. And I remembered how beautiful the animals were. I now also realize that the prohunting claims from the $2 billion-a-year hunting industry make little, if any, sense. It's not just deer. Even the animals that hunters call varmints- rabbits, racoons, squirrels--are being blown away in the state's forests. My family and I tramp through the woods almost every weekend, and we delight when our camp is "raided" by a couple of racoons at night. A couple of Sundays ago, a short item appeared in a Detroit newspaper offering instructions on how to bag squirrels. Since squirrels are not nocturnal beasts and like to sleep at night, the hunter gets to the woods before sunrise and patiently waits for the animal to wake up. Then, when the squirrel pokes its head out of its nest, it's an easy kill, so the story advised. The morning the story appeared we were up North. The treetop chatter of the squirrels stirred us out of our sleep. The forest is their home, not ours, and we were grateful to share it with them. To us, they are animals, not varmints. Hunters don't like to use the term "kill"--they "harvest" animals. They also call them "game," explaining that what they are really doing is sparing the animals a cruel death from starvation by keeping the populations in line. Fact: Biologists and others who study animal behavior have filled volumes establishing that animal populations are a direct result of habitat. Fact: In Michigan, the Department of Natural Resources has cleared trees from hundreds of thousands of acres of woodland for the express purpose of creating new growth near the ground, where deer can easily browse. Thus, the lush new browse terrain creates larger deer populations. Conclusion: It seems, therefore, we artificially create large deer herds for the sole purpose of slaughtering them. I've sold my guns and replaced them with a camera and a long lens. On our most recent trip into the woods, before the rest of tjie family was up, my daughter and I crept from the warmth of the * camper and made our way to a deer blind we had spotted the week before. Shortly after the sun rose, we saw two doe grazing in a nearby clearing. We shot two rolls of film before they became frightened and, white tails flagging, bounded back into the safety of the trees. Then, before going back for breakfast, we left a note for the unknown hunter who had constructed the blind. Using fingernail polish my daughter had lifted from her mother's purse, we painted on the gun rest inside the blind: "Don't shoot deer. ..unless they shoot first." Assistant Secretary of Agriculture Carol Tucker Foreman has withdrawn a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) proposal that would have restricted the sale of candy, soda water, frozen desserts, and chewing gum sold in vending machiens, a la carte lunch lines, or at snack stands in schools until after the last school lunch period. In making the announcement, Ms. Foreman indicated that because of some significant issues raised from the more than 2,100 comments received on the April. 1978, proposal, that the USDA will use the public meetings and written comments to help form the basis for a new proposal. The public meetings will focus on developing com­ petitive food standards that consider nutrition education, health, eating habits, and the local administration of, and impact on, the school fopd programs. Competitive foods are any foods sold in com­ petition with the type "A" lunch required in the National School Lunch program. Foreman said the three public meetings were scheduled in line with the department's policy of seeking broader public participation in the decision making process of government. Last year. Congress authorized Secretary of Agriculture Bob Bergland to regulate the sale of foods of limited nutritional value that are offered in competition with the National School Lunch and Breakfast program. In the comments received on the April proposal, 82 percent favored the regulation or some variation of it, and 18 percent opposed the regulation of competitive foods in schools. Those who wish to comment may do so by writing Margaret Glavin, SPD. FNS, USDA. Washington. DC., 20251^ by Feb. 15. EMPLOYMENT SURVEY Local representatives of the Bureau of the Census will conduct a survey of em­ ployment in this area during the work week of Jan. 15-19, Stanley D. Moore, director of the Bureau's Regional offk^in Chicago, has announced. Tfifc> survey is conducted for the U.S. Department of Labor in a scientifically designed sample of approximately 70,000 households throughout the United States. Employment and ui^employment statistics based on results of this survey are used to pwfvide a con­ tinuing measure of the economic healtnVof the nation. Plan Is Working The new plan for bringing down prices is working. Just ask anyone who's involved with the Hself stock market! was "played" hastily and without careful consideration of the full consequences; and 2) because so few Americans have any real understanding of China. By his sudden announcement that he would recognize Peking on Jan. >1. Mr. Carter caused every reporter in the news business to rush out for an "analysis" from every businessman and academician who could so much as spell C-H- I-N-A. Most comments fell into these three categories: 1. The Zipper Theory, wherein the American businessman gushes about the vast Chinese market ("Wow. 900 million people - if only I can sell each one a zipper!") This is an update of the 19th century British "Hemline Theory" ("See here, all those millions of Chinese -- if we can just get each one to add an inch to the hem of his gown we can save all the textile mills in Lan­ cashire!") Some U.S. poration executives, substantial business Taiwan, told reporters saw no reason why couldn't do business both there and on the mainland. Ap­ parently no one has told them that one reason Peking wanted "normalization" is to position legalistically so that it bring economic and cor- with on they they can r'^ Letters to the Editor Public Pulse (Th« Cloind.oUr Invitai »h« public to u>* thii this column o> on oiprotiion of tholr vlowt on tub|oct* of gonorol Intoroit In our community. Our only roquott it that tho writer* givo • tignoturo. full addrots and pltona numbor. Wo atk too that ono individual not writo on tho tamo tub|oct mora thon onco oach month. rotorvo tho right to doloto any material which wo contidor liboioui or in objoctionabl* tatta.) Marian Placement Test Marian Central Catholic high school recently announced that the SRA high school placement test will again be offered at the school Sunday. Jan. 14. at 9 a.m. The test will be ad­ ministered by Marian Guidance department per­ sonnel and no prior registration is necessary. The testing session will last approximately three hours. A very small fee will be charged. Eighth graders are also asked to bring a No. 2 lead pencil. The results of the SRA, along with junior high school teachers' recommendations are used by the Marian staff in the construction of freshman class schedules. Registration for all incomipg freshmen (class of 1983) is set for Sunday. Feb. 25. Further information on the placement test or freshman registration may be obtained by calling Ty Keller at Marian. POSTAL PROBLEMS 'Dear Editor: * About 3:30 p.m. Tuesday. Jan: 2, I attempted to mail a letter at the McHenry Market Place in the P.O. box. When I opened the box it was so full that I could reach in and pull out other people's mail. "Within 20 minutes I was home again and on the phone to the postoffice. A lady answered and I told her my story. Then I heard her call to someone that another lady is calling about the postoffice box in the mall' and had someone gone out to empty it. "She got back to me and I proceeded to express my opinion that I felt the box had not been emptied for a long time. I feel that with the weekend storm and sub-zero weather Tuesday, not many people ventured out -- at least not "enough to fill that box. "I'm sure that many of us would give this serious thought; Is our mail property handled? On Oct. 22 I mailed two greeting cards in the box outside the postoffice. One was delivered. As of now. nobody knows what happened to the other card. I filled out all the proper forms that the postoffice has to trace a letter but to no avail. "Upon talking with friends and neighbors, I detect hostility for the postoffice. From my own experience I have detected Actions among employees which I felt were out of place. "Joan Brastad" F o r Y o u r I n f o r m a t i o n Dear friends, yX r funeral director con holp arrange any type of funeral service you with. Your clergyman can coodinate the service. A humanist service might include a eulogy by o close associate family reminiscenses, favorite music or readings of the deceased. The choices ore yours. ^ Respectfully, PETER M.JIJSTEN FUNERAL HOME McHENRY, ILLINOIS - 385-0063 ARE YOU NEW IN McHenry Area? SS86SSSSSSSS Do You Know Someone New? . WE WOULD LIKE TO EXTEND A ROYAL WELCOME TO EVERY NEWCOMER TO OUR AREA!!!!! CALL JOAN STULL 385-5418 BZZKZE723 KNOW TOUR MU II0YM. 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Sponsored by Interstate Commerce commission) CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION Phone 800-638-2666 (For questions or complaints on products ranging from toys to ovens) NATIONAL HIGHWAY TRAFFIC SAFETY ADMINISTRATION Phone 800-424-9393 (Answers questions about automobile safety defects or whether a particular model has ever been recalled. Valuable for those interested in buying a used car) ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES Child Abuse Center McHenry County (312 ) 546-2150 CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION 800-638-2666 (Operates five national lines. Answers inquiries about, or reporting on. the safety of products from kitchen appliances to children's toys) NATIONAL SOLAR HEATING AND COOLING INFORMATION CENTER 800-523-2929 P.O. Box 1607, Rockville, Md 20850 (Dispenses information on solar systems for heating and cooling to anyone from architects to home owners looking for a sun-powered hot-water system) "CONSUMER PROTECTION DIVISION 3x2-793-3580 Chicago, III. HIKTHHICHT Prrpnanl? !Wd H«-lp? < otinM-linfc S«r»i«-r. .M.V2W). 21-liour \n- wMtring Swicr. YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU FOR McHENRY COUNTY 840 N. Seminary Avenue, Woodstock Phone: 338-7360 24-hour Crisis Intervention and Confidential Counseling for youth and families. Are you concerend about your angry feelings toward your children? 24-hour Parental Stress Line, 344-3944. ILLINOIS STATE CHAMBER HOTLINE Phone 217-522-5514 Answer to questions on government regulations. f SOME NEW YEAR'S PREDICTIONS BY RONALD RKAGAIN political pressure to force Taiwan into a negotiated capitulation -- and that squeezing U.S. business on trade matters is one way to do it. Prediction: 1979 will see many Zipper Theorists wishing they had kept their mouths buttoned. The Chinese Com­ munists want self-sufficiency and are willing -- in the short run - to buy machinery and technology (on credit, mind you) to get it. But. as the saying goes, they will buy "one of everything" - not including consumer goods, which they won't buy at all. Bear in mind. 1978 U.S.-mainland trade was approximately,$800 million: U.S.-Taiwan trade was $7.5 billion! . 2. Taiwan's commerce is safe - look at the Japanese Model. True, trade and tourism from Japan have shot up in the years since it switched recognition to Peking, but it did so with the then-certain knowledge that the U.S. was the ultimate guarantor of peace in the Taiwan Strait. Now that we've^ seen the emperor's New Clothes, who will guarantee stability and peace, the Cook Islands? 3. Carter won a huge con­ cession - the Communists tacitly agreed not to invade Taiwan. How's that again? Peking is neither capable of doing that nor crazy enough to do so if they could. They want Taiwan's industrial capacity intact. They know it will take time to undermine the island's political, social and economic structure enough to force a negotiated absorption. Expect them to bring a variety of subtle pressures to bear -- and soon - now that the. U.S. Has removed the legal barrier to doing so. When it happens, it will be described as an "in­ ternal affajr." . Prediction: These Sept. 13, 1976, words of Mr. Carter will prove true: "I believe in maximum openness in government. My government is your government. And whenever it is wrapped in secrecy, and the people are excluded from the process of making decisions, that's when we make our serious mistakes in foreign affairs." Amen. SCOUT NEWS CUB SCOUTS The Woodfield Ice Arena acted as host to the Cubs of Pack 351 on Saturday, Dec. 30, for an afternoon of family fun and enjoyment. Despite a few bumps and bruises, all managed to conquer the ice. Pack members returned home a little sore and tired, but full of the enthusiasm only an afternoon of ice skating can bring. EARL R. WALSH & JACK WALSH INS. Fire, Auto. Farm. 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